The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-16
BADGER ITEMS.

n YOUNG man giving his name as
William Weber, OF Hennisou, Mich,
registered at the Clifton House. Mil
waukee, on the 9th. Failing to APP
pear next day his door was broken
in and he was found dead in bed. It
| is supposed to be a case OF suicide.
Two physicians examined Will
Eddy, the Eau Claire kleptomanic,
and gave it as their opinion that { Is
| insane, and he will accordingly be COM
mitted to the Northern Hospital for
the Insane.
ANOTHER new town has been plated
| in Ashland County. 1t is named Dog
wood, and is located at the crossing
| OF the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
| ern and Duluth, South Shore & Allan
| tic railways.
THE body ola welt-dressed man was
| found in the river at Eau Claire. The
remains bad been in the water several
| weeks aud we're not Identified.
DR.. POWELL, "White Beaver" +" has
/ returned 10 la Crosse from a trip to
| London, where he was Il gusst OF Bu.-
/ falo Bill
The tract OF pine owned by BigIow
! 4 Co., OF WsshhuTn, Is large enough
/ for them to puc up mill with 81 ca
pacity OF $50, 900 tezt per day, and it
/ Is estimated that it viii take twenty
years to dispose otit.
The Superior Lumber company is
extending its main dock into Ashland
/ bay a distance OF POO feet. Tnei
/ lumber piles are gr wing rapidly. and
they expect to make heavy shipments
! by vessel to eastern markets this
! season.
RATS have so undermined the porch
! OF the courthouse Mt La Crosse that it
may give way and cause the large
columns to fall. The earth in the
neighborhood OF the court house and
jail is said to be completely honey
COmbed with TOadways made by the
rodents.
DURING a fire ST Milwaukee which
partially destroyed the cistern factory
OF Edward Brunk, on the S5h, Henry
Dlttmer, an emplOye, went into the
building after mis- tools and was sutf0-
Gated. He died a tew moments after
being rescued.
THE State Board OF Supervision mas
awarded TO J. c COrrigan & Co, OF
Milwaukee, the following contracts to
supply coal TO state Institutions:
| Northern Hospital, at Winnebago,
5000 tons OF Hooking Valley, at 81 50:
200 tons gas coal at 81. so. Industrl-
81 School at Waukesha, 700 tons
Hooking Valley at 1885. School, for
the Deaf at Delayau, 500 tons OF
Hooking Valley at 1896. State gris-
on, at NaupUu, 200 tons o. Hook
ing Valley al S4.O5. Unless otherwise
/ specified, the GOALS to be delivered on
track at the various institutions.
THE city well a. Madison Is 220 feet
| deep and has flow OF 115, ,0O0 gal
Ions in twenty-fOuT hours.
! WISCONSIN pOstmasters appointed:
JOS. Very, Darb Lake, Ke8auuee
County; Josephine Heissel, Holder,
Marathon County; Jno NJ RJngnes,
Mortified, Jackson County; Galley J.
| Wagley, PeeksviIle, Ashland County.
The Irish picnic at Milwaukee on
the 4th netted for rheeyiCtej tenants,
over 80, 500.
JOIN HARRIS died on the 7th al St.
Mary's hospital, Milwaukee, from the
effects OF injuries received by falling
through an elevator shalt, from the
second floor to the basement, IN II.
BoswOrth & Son drug store, on East
Water Street. He struck on mis- head,
which was badly cut, and sustained
internal injuries, which caused his
death. Harris was so years OF age,
and had been employed at BOswOrth' s
store for thirty years.
4 NEW potato pest is damaging the
crops IN Dane County. 1t begins at
the bottom leaves otthe potato plant
and eats up wards until it has cleaned
the nil, and then moves on to the
next until the whole field IS stripped.
The bugs generally 90 in shoals OF 200
or 300 ana are seldom found singiy
at work.
STEVE HENNEsEY, q bridge carpen.
ter IN the employ Of the Burlington
! company was drowned at Trempelaeau
while bathing ID the Mississippi. He
had only worked Tor the company a
few days and the whereabouts Cf his
friends are not positively known, bat
| supposed to be in WlIOua.
THE state convention OF the /. II.
G. a. will convene in annual session at
Madison IN October. A conference OF
secretaries OF the association will be
held at the same time II Is expected
that between 200 aud 300 delegates
will be in attendance.
The police Department. Of the city Of
La Crosse has given notice to Doys
and men and other persons thus IN
clined, TO stop playing ball IN the
streets.
Gov. RUsE occupies new quarters IN
the capitol at Madison.
| LAST March John Welinger, la
| Crosse ice dealer, while at work At lie
river, disappeared, leaving MS cap on
the bank. The river was dragged for
the body and a reward offered. Tues,
day he returned to mis- family in good
health, having spent the Intervening
time in Paris. About MS disappear
ance ne will only say he was too sick
10 work.
WILL EDDY, the young man who
was recently discovered TO nave pill
Tered cigars from Eau Claire drug
stores for a year or two past, has
been arrested on complaint OF John
| EuTTIe, a MOTEL keeper from whose
| place 1t Is alleged young Eddy recently
| stole 1000 cigars. On comparing
notes the druggists and others con
cerned believe that during the past
year the young kleptomaniac stole
from ), 600 to 10000 cigars.
| HAMILTON EOsE, A welI-known busi-
ness man Of Milwaukee, was seriously.
If not fatally injured Dy al explosion
Of package Of fireworks on the even
ing o. the 4th.
A STOCK company isiorming in Rock
Elm to put in s!uices on Plum Creek
| and make extensive arrangements for
extracting the gold, which, it has been
demonstrated, exists in paying guam
titles.
FRANK G.. HrRBARD waz instantly
| killed ia Chicago on the IN, by
| machinery In ore 81 Armour packing